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In great news for all fans of stupid criminals, police say they have arrested a burglar who stopped to do his laundry in the house he was robbing. Meanwhile, another burglar who drew attention to himself by taking a break to play the piano has also been apprehended.

Both seem to have forgotten that there’s an unspoken part of ‘breaking and entering’ – which is, of course, ‘breaking, entering and then remembering to leave again’.

In the first case, police say that Larcellus Angelo Scott of Bakersfield, California, broke into Denise Bealassio’s house, where he decided that this was an ideal time to stick a load of clothes in the washing machine.

Not only was he doing his laundry while in the property, according to reports, but he’d also ordered himself a pizza.

As is the way of things, Bealassio arrived home at the exact same time as the pizza guy arrived. Fairly sure that she hadn’t ordered a pizza, she sent him away, only to discover Scott when she entered her house.

He reportedly tried to attack her, but she managed to get away. Police said that when they arrived at the house, they found that Scott had written a check in Bealassio’s name to pay for the pizza.

According to Bealassio, Scott used to be her next door neighbour.

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, a burglar was arrested when, after trashing the living room, he stopped off to knock out a quick tune on the piano.

Unsurprisingly, the noise woke the house’s occupants, who called the police.

Sadly, a police spokesman was unable to offer a critique of the 20-year-old burglar’s technique as a pianist. ‘The owner didn’t register whether the playing was any good or not. He was more worried about the state of his house,’ he said.